IMHOP (ok, I'm 55 years old) Rock n Roll is dead and I've been to the grave and seen the ghosts (some of them email me). Country music is either dead or in Bransom on Geritol, except in pockets where some of us are still playing Ernest Tubb in a 'folk-revival' way.

Is Folk a drag? Well, this past weekend, (as in many places and times around the world) at a Folklore Society weekend people shared with all of us an wide range of genres. What was common to the oldtime country, celtic harp, sea shanties, tin pan alley, show tunes, ballads and newly composed songs, etc.?

We came together because of a love for music and brought with us the music we loved. We are the 'folk' in folk music, and the music is any damn music we want to play. Is it a drag? Not from the inside looking out.